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General

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December 23rd 2017

Star Citizen Alpha 3.0.0

Star Citizen Patch 3.0.0

Star Citizen Alpha Patch 3.0.0 is now available! Alpha 3.0.0 is our largest content release to date featuring numerous tech, core system updates, and new features. Players will have access to planetary surfaces for the first time on four moons (Yela, Daymar, and Cellin) along with an asteroid (Delamar). These new surfaces are expansive, with over 3 million square kilometers dotted with surface outposts and derelict ships. Additionally, we have added four new ships, our first dedicated surface vehicle (Ursa Explorer), the foundation of our revamped mission system with new missions, a completely new launcher and patcher system, and so much more!

Your launcher should should show “3.0.0-695052” as the client version. It is strongly recommended that players delete their USER folder for the Public client after patching, particularly if you start encountering any odd character graphical issues or crash on loading. The USER folder can be found (in default installations) at C:\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\StarCitizen\LIVE.

Important:

Many new features are present as a first implementation and still have numerous adjustments and tweaks to be made to bring them to full design specifications.

Many optimizations are still incoming and performance isn’t up to our standard as is.

With no many new systems coming online, there are likely to be numerous bugs left to smash and balance changes to hammer out.

We want you to be part of our open development! Report issues and bugs you encounter on our issue council: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/community/issue-council.

Key Game-play How Tos:

Ship Start Up: Approach the entry point of your ship, then press and hold “F” to activate the interaction system. Select from the various inner thought prompts using the cursor or mouse wheel to move between them. Once inside your ship, again press and hold “F” and select the “Flight Ready” prompt to run through complete ship start up. Alternatively, there are hotkeys available for quick start-up which you can find under “Advanced Controls Customization”

Landing: Landing now takes place through an Air Traffic Control (ATC) system. When close to a landing location, request a landing by navigating to your “Comms” menu on the MobiGlas (note: this is incorrectly displayed as a ship icon) and pushing the hail button (wifi symbol). Wait a moment, and ATC should assign you a landing location. Note, you may need to request take off to leave Levski (trigger opening of bay doors).

Quantum Travel: To quantum travel to a destination, open your MobiGlas (F1) and select the Starmap App (diamond shaped symbol). From there, use the mouse to select a destination. Whether or not an object can be selected for QT is determined by gravitational values (The larger the object the further away you can detect it, large objects with small objects in orbit drown out their detection capabilities at long ranges). Meaning you will not be able to travel from point A to B at all times, but instead may need to move into orbit of a larger body to detect destinations also in orbit. For example, to get to a station orbiting a moon that orbits a planet, the route is Planet>Moon>Station. Once you have a destination selected you can “set destination” on your MobiGlas to bring up a quantum travel target. As before, align with the QT target and press “B” to travel.

Changes to Default Keybindings: Controls now default to a “basic” mapping that only includes core functions and leaves many things unbound. The “basic” mapping is meant to be simplified controls for beginners. Players can then go through keybinds and bind how they wish or import an “advanced” binding from among several presets. Experienced players will most likely want to do one of those two things to gain full functionality. Advanced profiles can be found under Keybindings→Advanced Controls Customization→Control Profiles.

Afterburner: There is now a single afterburner with the ability to achieve higher top velocity under certain conditions, giving us AB SCM and AB Cruise with the only distinction being two different speeds. You can only enter AB Cruise if your flight path is a straight, forward line. Otherwise you’re limited to AB SCM, i.e. while maneuvering/strafing. Once in AB Cruise you can release the afterburner key and go into an AB idle mode to maintain your current speed. Throttle setting and y-axis strafe level allows incremental speeds, but you will decelerate if you change your vector. If you continue to hold AB and maneuver, you drop to AB SCM speed until you return to straight-line flight. AB Idle holds your current velocity as long as you’re not maneuvering and decoupled rotation is allowed while in AB idle.

Major Known Issues:

Persistent player location respawn is currently only working if the player returns to the same instance. This is not the intended final functionality.

The combat visor is an early, spartan prototype that is meant to give players core functionality. There’s still work remaining.

New Features

General Content

Breathing, Stamina & Heart Rate

Oxygen Supply: Many areas, such as space or the moons of Crusader, do not have breathable atmospheres and are dangerous for characters unless they’re wearing a pressure suit. Most pressure suits are equipped standard with an oxygen tank. As you breathe, you will slowly consume the oxygen inside your tank. Your oxygen tank will automatically begin to refill once you are inside an area, station, ship or outpost with a breathable atmosphere. If your oxygen supply runs out, your pressure suit contains a small buffer of oxygen to provide you with a short amount of time to try to find an oxygen supply. If your suit is not sealed or you’re not wearing a helmet, you will not have this buffer. If you do not have any oxygen available, you will asphyxiate and quickly pass out.

Stamina: As you exert more effort by running, jumping, etc., your muscles work harder and begin to consume more oxygen. To keep up with this higher demand, your heart rate and breathing increase to provide your muscles with a steady supply of oxygen. Wearing heavier armor will increase how much effort it takes to do actions and will tire you out sooner. The more you exert yourself, the harder you breathe and the faster your oxygen supply will be depleted.

Heart Rate Monitor: The heart rate monitor on your helmet’s HUD and in your mobiGlas functions as an exertion/stamina meter. As a character exerts themselves, their heart rate increases. If a character exerts themselves too much, they will enter a Hyperventilated state. This will restrict the actions that you can perform, and things like running, sprinting or vaulting will be blocked until you exit the hyperventilated state. Heart rate and breathing can also effect recoil handling and aim. As your heart rate increases the character’s aim will begin to sway, ranging from a minor wobble to wild drifting. Once levels reach certain critical thresholds your vision will also begin to be effected, slowly dimming till it goes completely black. Once your heart rate returns to normal, so will your vision and movement.

Wound System: , Injury is now taken into account for status effects to a small degree including movement penalties for limb damage.

Hint System

Added the foundation of a new “hint system” which will allow players to learn about how to play the game whilst playing it and reduce the burden of having to consult an off-line resource.

Interaction System

Interaction Mode

Holding down the [F] key will activate Interaction Mode – a contextual cursor will appear in the center of the screen, interaction points will highlighted, even from a distance. The parallax cursor movement allows selection of anything on screen with little head movement, while retaining full input control. Movement is limited to walking speed while in Interaction Mode. Holding the right mouse button enters into ‘focus’; the camera rotates and zooms in on the cursor location, putting it in the center of the screen. From here, the cursor behaves normally. Releasing right click returns to standard view. Left click confirms the selection, and the associated action begins. Releasing [F] will always immediately return to natural gameplay.

Inner Thought Prompt

When near enough to interact, the inner thought prompt will softly appear on the player screen, tilting towards the location of the interaction to help provide context to the inner thought text. The text will inform you of the action that will be performed upon interaction. Moving away, looking away, or having line of sight to the interaction point blocked will remove the inner thought prompt. The inner thought text will display on screen relative to the object of interaction, but will stay at a fixed size so it’s guaranteed readable. The ellipse below the text indicates that secondary options are available, and they can be accessed with the cursor or mouse wheel.

Party Launch System

Added new command /partylaunch. If the party leader enters /partylaunch into the chat window in game, this will send a notification to each party member when the leader enters an instance that they can either accept or ignore. If accepted they will be put into Matchmaking system to join the leader. If the server doesn’t have enough space for the full party, all players in the party will be put back into Matchmaking to find another server. If not in a server, whenever the party leader launches into a new server a partylaunch will automatically be generated for everyone.

Universe

Planetary Surfaces

We have implemented the first fully modeled, explorable planetary surfaces. These include three moons; Yela, Daymar, and Celin, as well as the mining planetoid Delamar. Each planetary body has unique atmospheric composition, pressure, and gravity as well as a variety of surface outposts and derelict ships to explore, many tied to our new missions system.

Planetary Motion

Surface Outposts

Planetary surfaces are dotted with surface outposts representing a variety organizations and functions. Each outpost is unique and has its own power system and oxygen supply, many with usable Kiosks and landing pads with associated ASOP terminals.

Persistence

Your character and ship’s persistence state is now being updated every few minutes and on logout. After death, you will respawn in the station you last visited. Visiting is determined by proximity. Additionally, players can now logout using ship beds. Entering a ship bed will present the player with a “logout” option that if used will persist the ship and player’s location. Upon return, the player will wake in their ship bed with their ship in the location of logout.

Air Traffic Control (ATC)

Landing and take off at larger public facilities is now controlled by Air Traffic Control (ATC). The ATC acts as the connection between you and the landing tower using the MFD comms function in every ship. When attempting to land, you will open a communication channel to the tower and ask for permission. The tower then checks if all the requirements are fulfilled and will advise appropriately. To hail ATC, cycle one of your ship MFDs to the “Comms” panel and select the hail symbol for the desired port.

New Locations

Levski: Levski is a base built directly into the rock on the asteroid Delamar. The base was originally an active mining facility but, after being left derelict for a number of years, new residents moved in and it became a hotbed for political radicals & criminals. The main areas are controlled by various political groups with a strong anti-UEE sentiment and they try to keep order best they can. Levski has the choice of numerous shops spread across multiple floors with many missions available. You can access Levski by foot, ship or ground vehicle.

AI Subsumption

We have introduced the basics of subsumption. You should now see NPCs going about their daily lives at all 3 major landing zones (Grim Hex, Port Olisar, and Levski).

Turret System

Updated Turrets: Turrets have been updated with the addition of targeting deadzones, movement ranges that prevent you from shooting your own ship, an updated UI, and a staggered fire mode.

Automated Turrets: You will find automated turrets defending Port Olisar, Security Post Kareah, and the various Comm Arrays. These turrets will automatically engage and fire at wanted criminals.

Kiosks

We have introduced shop Kiosks. The main variants of the Kiosk will be used for buying/selling commodities (cargo). The intention is that you will have separate inventories at each station and major landing zone. Kiosks will only be able to interact with items that are local to the shop’s location. The kiosk will be able to interrogate, and manipulate, any cargo, loadout, or the inventory of these local elements. By default, the kiosk will show everything you have access to in that location, but will be able to drill down to facilitate any specific ship cargo manifest.

Dynamic Inventories and Pricing

Locations have variable commodity pricing that will fluctuate over-time based on stock levels and restock rates. At the moment, this only effects cargo purchased at kiosks and is only present at major spawn locations (Levski, GrimHex, and Port Olisar).

Afterburner

There is now a single afterburner with the ability to achieve higher top velocity under certain conditions, giving us AB SCM and AB Cruise with the only distinction being two different speeds. You can only enter AB Cruise if your flight path is a straight, forward line. Otherwise you’re limited to AB SCM, i.e. while maneuvering/strafing. Once in AB Cruise you can release the afterburner key and go into an AB idle mode to maintain your current speed. Throttle setting and y-axis strafe level allows incremental speeds, but you will decelerate if you change your vector. If you continue to hold AB and maneuver, you drop to AB SCM speed until you return to straight-line flight. AB Idle holds your current velocity as long as you’re not maneuvering and decoupled rotation is allowed while in AB idle.

Quantum Travel System

Whether or not an object can be targeted for QT is determined by the drive’s detection range and is based off gravitational values (The larger the object the further away you can detect it, large objects with small objects in orbit drown out their detection capabilities at long ranges). Meaning you will not be able to travel from point A to B at all times, but instead may need to move into orbit of a larger body to detect destinations also in orbit. For example, to get to a station orbiting a moon that orbits a planet, the route is Planet>Moon>Station.

There’s now a short range quantum travel for moving around different orbital points of moons and small planetary bodies.

Quantum travel speeds, spooling, and cooldown times are variable based on the size and quality of the drive.

Mission System

The missions system has been revamped with new missions, mission givers, and greater variety. Each of the below missions has many variants and types, including lawful/unlawful, and many can be done in cooperation with other players. Some variants will require the player to gain a certain kind of reputation.

Delivery

Deploy

Recovery

AI Bounty Hunt

AI Assassination

Collection

Waste disposal

Patrol

Derelict investigation

Escort

Mission Givers: Ruto and Eckhart

Interdiction and Environmental Missions

AI now have the capability to interdict players during quantum travel, forcing them to drop out of quantum. In addition, there are random environmental encounters scattered throughout the verse.

Doors and Airlocks

Doors and airlocks have been updated with additional functionality.

Introduced basic ship security including the ability to lock and unlock your ships to control access.

Item 2.0 and UI

First introduction of item 2.0 system for ships, including the following:

Power – Includes the ability to control how much power is generated by the power plants and is distributed to all of the other systems to use.

Heat – Includes the ability to monitor how much heat, EM, and IR the ship is generating, and the ability to temporarily reduce IR.

Shields – Includes the ability to monitor and adjust shield strength and repair behavior, and adjust power usage and performance.

Screen Switch Behavior – Includes the ability to switch between various screens on the same physical monitor.

Cargo and Commodities

Introduced the first implementation of cargo

Salvage

Some items are transported in small, portable boxes, which can be bought and sold at vendors.

These items are placed in/around the Stanton system’s wreckages and procedurally on planet surfaces.

They will be generated when destroying cargo-carrying ships

0.5m boxes can be lifted and moved using the existing hand-lifting system

1 SCU cargo cannot be lifted or moved.

Storing Small Items in the Cargo Grid

Ships will have ‘Cargo Grids’ set up inside that governs how cargo is placed/secured within it.

Placing 0.5m boxes within the Cargo Grid will be considered ‘secured’ in the ship.

0.5m boxes will align within the Cargo Grid.

Any loose items placed within the grid will not align to this.

Loose Items placed inside the Cargo Grid will be added to the ship’s ‘manifest’.

Items placed outside of the grid will therefore not be added to the ‘manifest’.

Items can be taken from one ship’s hold, carried to another ship and stored in its hold instead.

Buy/Sell Cargo through Market Vendors1 SCU crates full of a single commodity can bought and sold at vendors.

0.5m boxes the player discovers, or recovers can be sold at vendors.

Commodities can be bought at a vendor in selected spots.

Players will walk up to the kiosk and use it to initiate an interaction.

Only the stock the vendor buys/sells will be listed and the price they want for each.

Transactions takes place entirely in the interface.

Star Marine

Armors

Added: Heavy outlaw (slaver).

Added: Heavy marine.

Consumables

Oxygen Capsule: Can be used to temporarily refill your suit oxygen supply.

Weapons

Added: Behring P8-SC SMG.

Ships & Vehicles

Ships

General

Added hit reactions.

Added damaged and emergency interior states.

Added compressed and/or springs to many ships landing gear.

Hydrogen fuel is now required for normal ship operation. Running out will result in the loss of engine power.

New

RSI Constellation Aquila

MISC Prospector

Aopoa Nox

Drake Dragonfly

Aegis Sabre Raven

Vehicles

New

RSI Ursa Rover

Weapons

Added Quarreler Laser Cannon (Size 3).
Components

Gravlev System.

Shield Emitters, Coolers, and Power Plants have returned with new functionality.

Addition of the quantum drive as an customizable component.

First Person

Animations

Greatly expanded the number of usable items (benches, stools, ect) that can be interacted with by both players and NPCs.

Appearance

Clothing

New clothing and clothing variants have been added.

Gear

Armor

Armor now consists of modular pieces that can be equipped, interchanged, and purchased as separate pieces

There are several new armor sets that can be found at various shops throughout the verse.

Weapons

Added: Apocalypse Arms Scourge Railgun.

Added: Behring P8-SC.

Added: Custodian SMG.

User Interface

New Mobiglas Interface
Personal Manager App

Using this app, you are able to select individual areas of clothing, armor, and items to change, add, or remove from the player’s character. To do this select a category and choose from options available in your inventory. Equipping an item may open up further ports for the user to equip more items such as Grenades, Gadgets and Magazines. Once the item is equipped, you can Save and Apply these changes to your character.

StarMap App

You will be able to navigate the various rings in the Starmap which display the orbital rotations of the areas to explore. You can use the right mouse button to move the Starmap around, and the left to rotate and select areas. Use the mousewheel to zoom in and out and double-click on planets to center and zoom into them. Once zoomed in on a planet or moon you will see x, y and z positions mapped out to quantum travel to, making it easier to decide which side of the planet to go to.

Contract Manager App

Use this app to check available missions, track/untrack accepted missions, and view your mission history.

Comm App (detailed below with MFDs).

New Ship Multiple Selectable MFD featuring Render to Texture (RTT).

Heat
System

Signals – The same signals readout as the Power MFD.

IR Suppression – This button toggles suppressing the IR signal multiplier (which temporarily reduces your IR signal) at the cost of all items (and thus, the entire ship via the Heat Sink) heating rapidly. When IR Suppression is active, you should see that IR starts to drop down, and Heat starts to creep up toward its overheat value.System

System IR Suppression – All groups are suppressed. This overrides any groups below.

System IR Suppression – All groups are suppressed. This overrides any groups below.

IR Levels – Shows the IR levels of each item category.
Items

On Button – This denotes the on/Off state of the item.

Item Name – Reorder alphabetically by item name (all categories).

Item Name – Item Name.

Distortion Damage – Appears when distortion damage is received, and disappears when there is none.

Item Type – Reorder by cycling item type (all categories). This is a list of available types:

Power Plant (power in this case is power generated)

Cooler (no heat, but for health/wear indication)

Shield Generator

Gun

Main Thruster

Maneuvering Thruster

Quantum Drive

Jump Drive

Radar

Power – The current item power usage.

Heat – The current heat the item is generating.

Health – How much health each item has remaining.

Wear – How much wear each item has remaining.

Power
System

On Button – Turns all power plants on/Off.

Power Throttle

Throttle – This throttles the connected Power Plants’ maximum power output.

Throttle Max – This is the 100% value for the Power Plants maximum power output.

Throttle Stealth – This is an updating bar which denotes the Stealth value that Throttle is set to when the Stealth Button is pressed (see below).

Power Usage – Currently generated power.

Power Required – Required power by all items.

Power Deficiency – Amount of required power minus the currently generated power. Only appears when the power plants aren’t able to supply enough required power.

Stealth – This button sets the Throttle to the Stealth value, which is the sum on Power value of all connected items that are on, plus a small reserve value (10% to start). As individual items will be able to be turned off, this bar will move up and down as the Stealth value changes. Once the Stealth Button has been activated and the Throttle value reduced, you may then readjust the Throttle to suit your needs or adjust the Power Priority Triangle to work with the reduced power output.

Power Priority Triangle – Moving the indicator on the Power Priority Triangle adjusts the percentage of power that is distributed to the three major systems (Shields, Weapons, and Thrusters) if total power requested is larger than available power generated. Nudging toward one system should add to it, and take proportionally to the other systems.

Groups – Each group (Shields, Weapons, Thrust) are represented by icons.

Priority – Percentages for each group. These should total 100%; dead center of the triangle should indicate 33% on each corner of the triangle.

Power Deficiency – If any group isn’t receiving its requested power, it is indicated by an icon.

Signals: Heat – As the point of throttling power to items is to control your ship’s signals, they are indicated here.

Heat – Total heat generated by items.

Heat Capacity – Total heat capacity available to the ship.

EM – Current total EMsignature.

IR – Current total IR signature.

Items

On Button – This turns individual power plants on/Off. Please note that the only items that can be turned on and off from this page are power plants. All other items are only observable in their on/off states.

Item Name

Item Name

Distortion Damage – Appears when distortion damage is received, and disappears when there is none.

Item Type – Reorder by cycling item type (all categories). This is a list of available types:

Power Plant (power in this case is power generated)

Shield Generator

Gun

Main Thruster

Maneuvering Thruster

Quantum Drive

Jump Drive

Radar

Avionics

Power – For power plants, power generation. For all other items, item power usage.

Heat – The current heat the item is generating.

Health – How much health each item has remaining.

Wear – How much wear each item has remaining.

Item Group

Power

Shields

Weapons

Thrusters

Shields
Systems

On Button – Turns all shield emitters and shield generators on/Off.

Shield Generator Throttle – This works exactly like the Power Throttle in all other MFDs and throttles Power for the shield generators.

Shield Status – As before, a top-down (for front, back, left, and right) and side (top and bottom) shield health is displayed. Face repair is represented by the highlighted bar, and each face’s health is indicated by the value next to it.

Top – Represents the health to front, back, left, and right.

Side – Represents the health to top and bottom.

Face Priority – Dragging the pip toward a face moves priority toward that face. Increasing face priority both increases the rate at which it is repaired when damaged, and also redistributes health toward it when the shields are healthy.

Top – Represents the face priority to front, back, left, and right.

Side – Represents to the face priority to top and bottom.

Face Hardening – Selecting a face temporarily gives it extra resistance, allowing you to brace for damage to a particular face.

Standby – This button turns off the actual shield temporarily to allow it to repair more quickly at the cost of not having the shields on while this is happening.

Items

On Button – This turns individual shield generators on/Off.

Item Name – Reorder alphabetically by shield generator name.

Item Name – Shield Generator name.

Distortion Damage – Appears when distortion damage is received, and disappears when there is none.

Type – Item Type Icon

Power – Shield generator power usage.

Heat – The current heat the shield generator is generating.

Health – How much health each shield generator has remaining.

Wear – How much wear each shield generator has remaining.

Weapons
System

On Button – Turns all weapons and missiles on/Off.

Weapon Group On Button- This turns all weapons in the weapon group on/Off.

Weapon Group Number – Weapon Group 1 or 2.

Weapon Group Throttle – This works exactly like the Power Throttle in all other MFDs and throttles Power for that Weapon Group.

Weapons Number – Number of weapons in that Weapon Group.

Missiles On Button – This turns all missiles on/Off.

Missiles Icon

Missiles Number – Number of missiles left.

Items

On Button – This turns individual weapons on/Off.

Item Name.

Item Name – Weapon Name

Distortion Damage – Appears when distortion damage is received, and disappears when there is none.

Weapon Group – The Weapon Group number (there are two). Clicking this specific element switches the fire group to the other fire group (there are currently two fire groups).

Ammo Type

Ammo

Remaining Ammo – Ammo remaining in current reload.

Reloads – Ammo reloads remaining.

Power – Gun power usage. This will be useful for showing you how much power each gun requires to use.

Heat – The current heat the item is generating.

Health – How much health each gun has remaining.

Wear – How much wear each gun has remaining.

Comms

The Comms system is available as a menu option on ship MFDs as well as on the MobiGlas To use MFD comms, the player will have to enter Interaction Mode (hold down “F”) in order to see and select the appropriate MFD panel and interact with comm functionality.

Requesting landing: Use the Comms system when in range of a landing zone to request a landing pad. The air traffic control (ATC) will respond and assign you a pad. In some instances, such as at Levski where the landing pads are enclosed, you will need to use the same system to request a take off.

Technical

Universe

Increased player-cap to 50.

Menu

Added FOV scale to menu.

Audio

New low ammo audio.

New ship weapon audio.

New ship engine audio.

Graphical

New “Fog” VFX.

New Debris Motion.

New Quantum Travel VFX.

New Ship Destruction VFX.

New Ship “trails” VFX.

New layered ship weapon impacts.

Optimizations

Added additional serialization.

Improved emitter update performance.

Feature Updates

Universe

General

Updated color-grade for Crusader.

ASOP Terminals

Added ship selector with more information.

Shops

Adding magazines and grenades to Cubby Blast.

Added new armors/weapons to Garrity Defense.

Added new clothing to various stores.

CrimeStat

Split “wanted” and “criminality” reputations.

Only players at wanted level 3 should appear hostile.

If criminal is killed by security, they lose wanted levels.

Grim Hex

Additional props.

Updated art assets.

Moved ASOP terminals to main railing.

Ships & Vehicles

General

Updated with new hit reactions.

Updated ship entry and interaction animations.

Ships

Drake Cutlass Black: Complete Rework.

RSI Aurora Series: Complete Rework.

Aegis Avenger

Updated dashboard.

Aegis Vanguard

Cockpit rework.

Aegis Sabre

Cockpit display rework.

Aegis Gladius

Cockpit display rework.

HUD update.

Anvil Gladiator

Separated art for pilot/copilot geometry.

Drake Herald

Rescaled self-destruct timer.

Vanduul series

Updated lighting.

Merlin

Updated lighting.

MISC Reliant

Updated lighting.

Drake Caterpillar

Added airlock hole for EVA hatch.

Ship Weapons

Updated animations.

Knightbridge Arms series: Complete Rework.

Klaus and Werner Repeater Series: Complete Rework.

Star Marine

Armors

Armor and equipment weight now alters run speed and stamina drain.

Light/Medium/Heavy armor piece damage reduction balancing.
Weapons

New P8-SC SMG available.

Tweaks and balance changes across all weapons.

Arena Commander

Scoring rework.

First Person

Animations

Updated jumping.

Updated pistol animations.

Gear

Equipment Weight: Equipment weight now influences actor state and run speed.

Weapons

Complete art rework: Devastator 12 Shotgun.

Complete art rework: Arrowhead Sniper Rifle.

Complete art rework: P4-AR Assault Rifle.

Complete art rework: Arclight Pistol.

Complete art rework: Gallant Rifle.

Complete art rework: Gemini L86.

Technical

Universe

Increased player cap to 50.

Menu

Reskinned “Contacts” page.

Keybindings and Controls

Complete rework of all keybindings.

Tweaked controls for turrets for improved experience.

Added joystick mappings for EVA and FPS.

Added joystick mappings for interaction mode.

Added gamepad mappings for interaction mode.

Added ADS zoom in and out for gamepad.

Audio

Updated internal ship audio.

Updated quantum travel audio.

Updated shopping UI audio.

Updated collision audio.

Graphical

Exposure Improvements.

Specular Improvements.

Fixes

Bug Fixes

Universe

Fixed LOD issues on Olisar.

Fixed delayed/missing music in Crusader.

Fixed missing purchasable items form ArcCorp.

Added proper collision to GrimHex shop window.

Fixed an issue where spawning a Freelancer in front of a Scythe would cause them to collide.

Fixed missing collision in Aeroview hangar.

Vehicles

Suspension should now work properly.

Ships

EMP Charges no longer have a chance to kill players.

Fixed some audio feedback issues.

Khartu-Al

Corrected several backward or missing decals.

Gladiator

Fixed exterior lighting.

Mustang Series

Corrected several backward or missing decals.

Fixed cracked glass appearance on cockpit from a distance.

Caterpillar

Fixed an issue with shadow flicker in cockpit.

300 Seires

Corrected several backward or missing decals.

Fixed some clipping geometry.

Fixed texture normals.

Vanguard series

Fixed a bug with Hoplite destruction VFX.

Vanduul

Fixed collision issues with Scythe and Glaive landing gear.

Starfarer

Player no longer t-poses when entering/exiting turret.

Constellation series

Reduced the interaction point size of ladders.

Resolved missing or quiet audio for fly by.

FPS

Fixed some issues with grenade markers.

Fixed players momentarily in aim pose during jump.

Projectiles sh ould now spawn in correct zone.

Fixed issue where players could use MediPen without reducing supply or without HUD updating.

Arena Commander

Fixed LOD issue on Dying Star central spire.

Fixed LOD issues for landing pads.

Star Marine

Visual Clean-ups for Star Marine: Demien.

Cleaned up issues with player lighting.

Fixed issue where all players were marked hostile for spectator.

Players no longer slide into hacking animation when interacting with terminals from side or back.

Removed grenade damage through barrier into spawn room.

General

Fixed issue where players were unable to join on friends if different regions are selected.

Fixed issue where if both players add each other to contacts they both appear as permanently offline.

Fixed an issue where only the first PTU account copy would get added to friends system.

Fixed an issue where loading into the universe would present no destinations after finishing a match of Arena Commander.

Fixed an issue where input recognition would fail when overlapping inputs.

Balance

Ships

Boost and afterner are additive rather than multiplicative

Quantum fuel tanks and consumption have been updated for new planet.ary distances.

Shield regen now has a “set-back” value that varies regeneration based on incoming damage.

Completely reworked armor. All ships now have armor to varying degrees with more combat focused ships having thicker armor and greater damage reduction. Armor now reduces incoming energy damage more than physical damage.

Adjusted shield and ship health values.

All ships have had their velocities, both linear and angular, increased.

Hydrogen fuel consumptions and regeneration has been reworked.

EMPs no longer effect the source ship.

FPS

Increased hip fire recoil.

Damage and spread balancing across all weapons.

Reduced procedural breathing sway effects in ADS.

Added damage reduction component to armor items.

Increased damage reduction of medium and heavy armors.

Increased movement speed difference between light and medium.

Bugs, Issues, and Work Arounds (W/A)

Some ships may be spawning without items or without the ability to “flight ready”. W/A: If this happens please file an insurance claim to replace the ship.

Various actions can cause the player to holser their weapon (medipens, springting, vaulting, ect).

Changing loadouts on the Star Marine menu incosistent and often doesn’t work.

Score does not remain consistent in Star Marine if you leave and rejoin.

AI often fly out of bounds in Arena Commander.

Close proximity ship to ship passes cause a large FPS stutter.

Game mode and map images are not scaled correctly on the Arena Commander menu.

Pickups are inconsistent in Arena Commander.

The chatbox regularly goes away due to various actions (interacting with some objects, switching to 3rd person camera, ect). W/A: You can consistently bring back the chat window using “F12”.